Automatic dispensing wateb cooler



V. GLISCI.

AUTOMATIC DISPENSING WATER COOLER.

APPLICATION FILED AUG-.13. 1920- 1,407,264.

Patented Feb. 21, 1922.

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V. GLISCI.

AUTOMATIOYDIS'PENSING WAIER 000m.

APPLICATION man AUG. 13, 1920.

Patented Feb. 21, 192.2.

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V. GLISCI.

AUTOMATIC DISPENSING WATER COOtER.

APPLICATION FILED AUG, 13, I920.

1,407,264, Patented Feb. 2], 1922.

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UNITED STATES VITO GLISCI, OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT.

AUTOMATIC DISPENSING WATER COOLER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 21, 1922.

Application filed August 13, 1920. Serial No. 403,189.

T 0 all 20 hom it may concern Be it known that I, Vrro GLIscI, a subject of the King of Italy,and a resident of Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and'State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Automatic Dispensing Water Coolers, which im provements are fully set forth in the following specification.

This invention relates to improvements in apparatus of that class available for maintaining a supply of cooled water and for automatically replenishing any volume thereof which may be drawn therefrom, as for drinking or other purposes, such apparatus being well designated Automatic dispensing water-coolers.

The object of this invention is to prow'de a water-cooler of the character above indicated, which shall be comparatively simple and inexpensive as regards its construction; durable, efiicient and reliable in practical service; convenient in its application to practical purposes; and which shall possess certain well-defined advantages over prior analogous constructions.

The invention consists in the combinations, details and parts hereinafter more particularly referred to and set forth in the appended claims, and whereby the attainment of the foregoing object is rendered practicable.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawing, wherein:

Fig. 1 is a view mainly in top plan of an automatic water-cooler embodying my said improvements, the cover of the main housing being swung upwardly and backwardly to a position approximately horizontal, the cover of the "interior storage tank being swung upwardly to a position approximately vertical, and the air-agitating compartment being shown partly in central, horizontal section, as along the dotted line 1-l of Fig. 2.

Fig. 2 is a front elevation of same, the end-wall of the air-agitating compartment being partially removed.

Fig. 3 is a rear end elevation of the airagitating compartment detached, the endwall thereof being partially removed.

Fig. i is a central, vertical, longitudinal section, as along the dotted line 4-4 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 5 is a view showing in side elevation the general storage section of my improved cooler, the near walls of the main housing and the interior storage tank being broken away.

Fig. 6 is a vertical transverse section, as along the dotted line 6-6 of Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is a side elevation of the air-agitating compartment, detached.

Fig. 8 is a view showing detached and in perspective the pebble tray made use of.

Similar reference-numerals denote like parts throughout the several views of the drawings; and in carrying out my present invention I make use of a. general housing 2, fitted with a cover 2', and wherein is positioned a storage tank 3, fitted with a cover 3'. i

There is, in turn, positioned within the.

storage tank 3 a tray 3", best supported by opposite legs 4, i", 5', 5", a float-housing 4 being, in turn, displaceably supported by said tray, fitted with a suitable door 5, by way of which access to the interior of the float-housing may be had, and having arranged therein a primary distributing compartment 6, fitted with an intake 6' and an outlet 6", the latter controlled by a valve 7, attached to the stem 7 of afloat 7 and operating as a unit therewith.

The tray 3 has disposed thereon a mass or volume of pebbles 8'.

An air-space 8 jackets the storage tank 3 and a similar space for air and water circulation jackets the float-housing 4.

8 denotes a water intake-pipe, attachable at its intake end, to, say, a faucet, or other unit of a circulation system affording a general supply of drinkable water under pressure, and leading inwardly through the general housing aforenamed, and the storage tank aforenamed, and having its delivery end arranged in communication with the intake 6', a branch pipe 9', controllable exte, riorly of the general housing aforenamed,

as by means of a hand-operable valve 9,

desirable the cooling of the contents of tank 3, as during the winter season, the flow of water for actuating the propeller 11 may be readily cut off by means of the handvalve 9".

The device is portable and may be readily shifted from place to place, as occasion may make desirable.

My improved cooler is particularly well adapted for the purposes for which it is intended, and is well calculated to effect marked economy in the use of ice.

The operation of my improved cooler should be apparent from the foregoing description thereof, and it will be noted that the same may be modified, particularly as regards the specific character of the airagitating medium made use of, the arrangement of the air and of the water circulation system availed of, and various minor details of the general construction, without materially departing from the spirit and principle of my invention as set forth in and coming within the scope of the claims hereto appended.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

1. A water-cooler comprising a main housing; a storage tank positioned within said housing and surrounded in the main by a substantial jacketing-space; a float housing displaceably seated within said storage tank and including a closed primary distributing compartment having at its top an inlet and an outlet, the latter fitted with a valve-seat; a rocking stem; fitted with a valve at one end thereof; a float within said float-housing and coacting with said stem at the opposite end thereof, whereby control of the outlet aforenamed under variations in the level of the contents of said tank, and

through the medium of the valve aforenamed, is effected; an intake pipe whereby is conducted a constant supply of drinkable water to and into said distributing compartment by way of the inlet thereof; and a draw-off faucet, the latter operable exteriorly of the said main housing and whereby may be withdrawn the contents of the storage tank aforenamed.

2. A water-cooler comprising a main housing; a storage tank positioned within said housing; a tray fitted with supporting legs displaceably positioned within said tank and supporting a mass of pebbles; a float-housing displaceably seated on said tray and including a closed primary distributing compartment having at its top an inlet and an outlet, the latter fitted with a valve-seat; a valve co-acting with said outlet; a fioat within said float-housing; a connection between said float and said valve whereby the latter is caused to control the outlet aforenamed under variations in the level of the contents of said tank; an intake pipe whereby is conducted a constant supply of drinkable water to and into said distributing compartment by way of the inlet thereof; and a draw-off faucet, the latter operable exteriorly of the main housing and whereby may be withdrawn the contents of the storage tank aforenamed.

3. A water-cooler comprising a main housing; a storage tank positioned within said housing and provided with a cover at its top; a float-housing displaceably seated within said tank, provided with a door at one side thereof, and including a closed primary distributing compartment having at its top an uncontrolled inlet and a valvecontrolled outlet; a float within said floathousing and capable of actuating, through variations in the level of the contents of said tank, the valve controlling said outlet, said float-housing and distributing compartment being insertible into and removable from said tank as a unit; an intake pipe whereby is conducted a constant supply of drinkable water to and into said distributing compartment by way of the inlet thereof; and a draw-off faucet, the latter operable exteriorly of the main housing and whereby may be withdrawn the contents of the storage tank aforenamed.

4. A water cooler comprising a storage tank fitted with a cover at its top; a floathousing, including a primary distributing compartment having at its top an inlet and a valve-controlled outlet, said float-housing and distributing compartment insertible into and removable from said tank as a unit; a float within said float-housing and capable of actuating, through variations in the level of the contents of said tank, the valve controlling said outlet; a draw-off faucet whereby may be withdrawn the contents of said storage tank.

VITO GLISCI.

Witnesses:

DONATO K. GAUDIosI, FREDERIC W. DAUCH. 

